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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Molly bring with her when she comes to visit Charlie at his house?
(a) A note from her parents.
(b) Her luggage.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A kitten.

2. What does Thomas wonder when they are first in the German's lines?
(a) How the Germans manage to have dry trenches.
(b) Why it is so neat.
(c) Why their food smells so much better than theirs.
(d) Where everyone is.

3. What outnumbers the people at the next duty assignment?
(a) Animals.
(b) Rats.
(c) Horses.
(d) Cats.

4. What does Thomas do at work that is different?
(a) He no longer enjoys his work.
(b) Take assignments that gets him away from Charlie.
(c) He no longer sings while working.
(d) He asks for all the dangerous assignments.

5. Where are Thomas, Charlie, Hanley, and a dozen or so other men?
(a) In a concrete bunker in no-man's land.
(b) In one trench that is left on the front lines.
(c) In the hospital.
(d) In the first line of German trenches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the company ordered on the third day?

2. What does Molly tell Charlie?

3. What does Charlie refuse to do?

4. For what do Charlie and Thomas volunteer?

5. What is the outcome of the trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Thomas experience some of the gas and what happens when a German soldier sees Thomas?

2. How do Charlie and Thomas convince the Army that Thomas is old enough to join?

3. What news does Molly announce and how does Charlie respond?

4. Why is Molly at Charlie and Thomas' house one day when they return from work and what has she brought with her?

5. What does Thomas wait for for a night and day and what is the outcome?

6. What happens when they encounter a German soldier in the German trenches?

7. What is the new assignment at Wipers like?

8. What happens to Charlie when they return to their own lines?

9. What does the Colonel demand and how does he threaten Charlie's family?

10. Who is in the bunker and what does Sergeant Hanley order his men to do?

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